Two dead as 6.8-magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico

A robust magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Mexico, inflicting no less than two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides.

The earthquake struck at 1.19am on Thursday close to the epicentre of a magnitude 7.6 quake that hit three days earlier within the western state of Michoacan.

It was additionally blamed for 2 deaths.

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The US Geological Survey mentioned Thursday’s earthquake was centred 31 miles south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of 15 miles.

Michoacan’s state authorities mentioned the quake was felt all through the state.

It reported injury to a constructing within the metropolis of Uruapan and a few landslides on highways.

Individuals collect exterior after one other earthquake was felt in Mexico Metropolis (Eduardo Verdugo/AP)

President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned by way of Twitter that it was an aftershock from Monday’s quake and was additionally felt within the states of Colima, Jalisco and Guerrero.

Mexico Metropolis mayor Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned on Twitter that two individuals died — a lady who fell down the steps of her house and a person who had a coronary heart assault.

Residents huddled in streets as seismic alarms blared.

The earthquake rattled an already jittery nation.

Monday’s extra highly effective quake was the third main earthquake to strike on September 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022.

The 2017 and 2022 quakes got here very shortly after the annual earthquake drill carried out each September 19 to commemorate the devastating 1985 temblor that killed some 9,500 individuals.